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Consider how this could add up for WotC: 100,000 full subscribers: $36 million per year. 250,000 full subscribers: $90 million per year. 500,000 full subscribers: $180 million per year. 1,000,000 full subscribers: $360 million per year. 5,000,000 full subscribers: $1.8 billion per year. If...

This is true of book series, as well. The majority of popular ones don't start as insta-hits; something like Name of the Wind is an exception, not the rule (and that was problematic because it was so hyped, and then so popular, and then the author fritzed the series). I read Wheel of Time...

That's actually one of the things I like about Euro shows - the (generally) slower pacing.

As someone who doesn't watch the show, I can't tell you how weird this paragraph reads.

Haha, true, true. I guess I saw "sow" and thought "cow." Well, that makes me reconsider giving 1899 a shot.

Which begs the question: What did sows ever do to Netflix? Moo too loudly? On a serious note, this is useful information, but it leaves out a crucial part: how many of those shows were conceived of as episodic vs. parts of a singular story told over multiple seasons? 1899 ended on a...

Sure, though I'm not sure how this means I'm "also not right." Meaning, how does this conflict with what I wrote? But yeah, one of Netflix's saving graces is their "emphasis on foreign TV," which works for folks like me who like Nordic Noir and rando European supernatural thrillers like Black...

I don't want to derail the thread (too much), but this touches upon a problem that I think clarifies why this WotC OGL is something that people should unite on, regardless of which "side" they're on in other issues. For one, there is no singular correct (or even "progressive") view on issues...

For this reason, mainly: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/01/16/netflix-has-created-a-self-fulfilling-cancelation-loop-with-its-new-shows/?sh=260d528e78c3 For me it started with the cancellation of Archive 81, a show I really liked but they cancelled after a single season...

Well, I'm riffing off of the thread topic, which is a hypothetical "perfect D&D." So why not be idealistic? But yeah, I haven't really seen a game like that, or at least one that offers both (there are great "D&D-esque" simpler games, and of course very complex ones).

I don't see an option for: "Be very simple, with complex options that can easily be added or subtracted." You know, the mythical "complexity dial." To me that's the holy grail of D&D. A game that you can play at varying levels of complexity, from at least "rules pretty lite" (e.g. Castles &...

I just finished Arthur C Clarke's City and the Stars, one of his earlier novels from the 1950s. Very cool and evocative imagery, with his usual big cosmological/historical speculations. Takes place a billion years in the future.

Sounds like your feed is on "For You" rather than "Following." If you want to see tweets by people you follow, set it towards the latter. (I was confused at first, too, but going to Following reverting back to seeing only/mostly tweets from people I follow)

It could just be my own sometime's faulty comprehension.

There's no option for what I imagine is true for most people here (that play 5E): Own and use WotC and 3PP products.

Right, but they're probably not going to change their basic nature - that of a wolf, in my analogy. They'll just be better at playing the sheep...which may end up being enough, or amounting to close to the same thing, at least to a certain point. The RPG industry is somewhat rare in that it is...

Can a wolf that you thought was a sheep be forgiven for actually being a wolf? Now maybe it isn't that simple. Certainly, "WotC" includes good people, and the "wolf" is ultimately Hasbro. So sure, WotC could be forgiven (that is, trusted again) if it wasn't owned by Hasbro. But Hasbro is going...

I think it depends on how you look at it. In the real world, there are few cases of obvious, outright "intentional evil." They happen, but usually on a small scale. Most of what we consider to be "evil" (or should I say "bad") is people who think what they're doing is "good", but ignore or don't...

Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at with "more than the market can bear" and smaller Pathfinders emerging (and most dwindling away). But the community focus is key, yet I remain agnostic if whether this breaking up a bit would be a good or bad thing. On one hand, it is nice in that...

I hear you, and think this has definitely been true for most of the last 50 years, but that WotC might be banking on it not being true in the future, at least based on what Lisa Codega wrote. WotC is (or will be) focusing on VTT, and "ease of play" modalities, so it might be that the D&D of the...